Monday, March 12, 2007

Gakuen Alice 11


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Mikan is sleeping inside her room. However, just as she's about to indulge in her fantasy about Hotaru, a fire alarm breaks out and all of the students are forced to evacuate the dormitory. Mikan is relieved when Iincho tells her that Hotaru is safe and is also amazed at the usefulness of other students' Alices in helping to quell down the fire and safe those who are trapped in it. Meanwhile, Natsume is seen on the other side of the building looking rather disturbed. Ruka then arrives and asks him if he's okay and suddenly Natsume starts to remember a girl who's trapped in the fire while there's an echo of sound from many people including Persona whispering "Hitogoroshi" - Murderer. Back to Mikan, she's trying to help a kid who's crying because he's left a videotape of her mother inside the now burning room.

Mikan foolishly tries to return to the dormitory and gets the tape. She does manage to get the tape but at that point, an explosion happens in the building and she falls unconscious after seeing Hotaru in her flying duck motorbike. The next day, Jinno-sensei wants to know which student barged into the burned dormitory last night. He is definitely not impressed when he finds out it was Mikan even after Iincho tries to explain to him that Mikan was trying to help a kid. Somewhere in an unknown location, Noda-sensei time-tripped himself into a snowy area. In this place, he sees a woman walking alone holding a baby in her arm. It's only after she left that Noda-sensei realises that he may know that woman. Back to Mikan, she's in the middle of telling Misaki and Tsubasa about how she feels feels useless after last night's incident.


Elsewhere in the school, Narumi-sensei is seen sneaking around a greenhouse belonging to Misaki-sensei. It seems he's there to steal those plant-like whip that he used back in episode 2. However, as soon as he picks the plant, an alarm goes off indicating that someone has taken something from the greenhouse. Narumi quickly makes his way out of the greenhouse trying to escape. Before he can get too far, however, he bumps into Noda-sensei who appears out of nowhere. To make things weirder, Noda-sensei asks Narumi how old he is right now. When Narumi answers that he's 27 years old, Noda-sensei is relieved, telling Narumi that it seems he's returned to the present. When Mikan and Tsubasa appears on the scene, Nodachi realises that he hasn't thought Mikan much of anything. So he offers to teach Mikan a lesson right now.

Nodachi then begins his lesson by telling Mikan that there are four types of Alice form capability. The first one is the type that only appears in during childhood period, the second one is one where the Alice can be maintained for a long time but without too much power. The third one is where the Alice is powerful but can only be used in short amount of time and once. Finally, there is a rare type that has no limit but it has effect on the user's life. Mikan is then interested to know more about the first one, so Nodachi tells her that it is an Alice which only appears when someone is still a child but eventually disappears as the person becomes an adult, turning the adult into an ordinary person. The most 'interesting' one, however, is the Alice type that can produce harmful effects to their health or even shorten the life of the person who uses it.

Upon hearing this, Mikan suddenly remembers about Natsume but then wonders why she is even thinking about him and tries to shake her Natsume-filled thoughts. Anyway, Nodachi then tells Mikan that just talking about it won't do any good so they're going to practice her Alice. He informs Mikan that he's going to time-trip again now and he wants her to use the cancellation Alice to stop him. Unfortunately, unlike other groups which have access to tools which can help Alice users to evoke their power, Tokuryoku-kei has no such device. So instead Nodachi tells Mikan that he'll wander in the past or future and unable to go back if she can't stop him with her Alice. Upon hearing this, Mikan becomes worried about Nodachi and manages to use her Alice to stop Nodachi's time-trip effort.

Having said that, Mikan is not happy that Nodachi makes her scared like that. So Nodachi asks Mikan to forgive him but he believes that method is effective to reproduce her power. Noda then time-trips for real after telling Mikan to practice her Alice. And practice she does. Mikan decides to set up a stall in the school asking other students to use their Alice on her and she'll try to cancel it. This ranges from Mikan trying to cancel a guy with smelly fart *snerk* to Natsume's attempt to toast her ass. Meanwhile inside a park in the school, Noda sensei makes another appearance in front of Narumi-sensei who proceeds to offer him some tea. Out of the blue, however, Noda-sensei then tells his time-tripping experience where he went back 10 years earlier to a snowy day and saw a woman carrying a child in her arms.

Upon hearing this, Narumi-sensei seems to be reminded of something and bids goodbye to Noda-sensei. Back to Mikan, she's in the middle of convincing Hotaru to help her practicing but Hotaru refuses and tries to shoot baka-gun bullets at Mikan. Unfortunately, a stray bullet almost hit Jinno-sensei, pissing off the teacher. Jin-Jin is even more unhappy after he finds out that this is happened because Mikan tries to practice her Alice. At the same time, Hotaru is not happy that Jin-Jin treats Mikan like a dirt. So the conversation goes downhill from there and turns dangerous after Hotaru calls Jin Jin a heartless person. Jin-Jin suddenly goes abusive and uses his lightning Alice on Hotaru. When he tries to use a bigger one on her, however, Mikan manages to nullify his Alice. Unhappy with the failure, Jin-Jin left the scene, allowing Iincho to tell Mikan that her Alice works when she wants to protect people who are important to her.

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